2018 Dodge Challenger

2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon Go-Mango Orange, 840 HP, Low Production Widebody


Why This Car Is Special

The 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon was not a limited edition in the marketing sense. It was a limited production car in the engineering sense built for one model year only, with a specific mission: to be the fastest production car in the quarter mile ever certified by the NHRA at the time of its release. Dodge held nothing back. The Demon ran the quarter mile in 9.65 seconds at 140 mph on its factory Nitto NT05R Demon Drag Radial tires numbers that, when announced in 2017, made headlines across every automotive publication on earth. The car was so fast that the NHRA required it to run with a roll cage or a parachute at sanctioned events above a certain speed. That's not marketing copy. That's a technical ruling from the governing body of drag racing in North America.

Dodge produced just 3,300 Demon units for the United States market for the 2018 model year. That number was set in advance and was not expanded. Each car came with a numbered certificate and a Demon Crate a separate shipment containing the items removed from the car to reduce weight for drag racing, including the passenger seat, rear seats, and spare tire. The production figure was low enough and the demand high enough that many examples were marked up significantly over MSRP at the time of sale. Today, well-preserved examples like this one command serious collector money because the Demon was a single-year model that will never be made again.

This specific 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon is finished in Go-Mango orange, one of the more visually assertive colors available on the Demon and one that connects directly to Dodge's muscle car heritage the same name was used on factory Mopar cars in the early 1970s. The matte black hood provides contrast and serves a functional purpose, reducing glare for the driver and visually separating the performance-focused hood scoop area from the body color. This car wears the full Widebody package, which added 3.5 inches of total width to the Challenger's stance to accommodate the wider drag-focused track and tires.


Features List

- Supercharged 6.2L HEMI V8 producing 840 horsepower on 91-octane pump gas (up to 808 hp on 91-octane; 840 hp requires 100-octane or race fuel per factory specification)
- 8-Speed TorqueFlite Automatic Transmission
- Air Grabber Hood Intake functional ram-air system that opens on demand
- K&N Cold Air Intake
- Demon Drag Radial Tires Nitto NT05R, factory-fitted
- Black Widebody Fenders factory fitment, not aftermarket
- Matte Black Hood
- Demon Front Splitter
- Red Brembo Brake Calipers
- SRT Badging throughout
- Black Leather Bucket Seats
- Center Console
- Power Windows and Locks
- Go-Mango Orange Exterior


Mechanical

The heart of the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon is the supercharged 6.2-liter HEMI V8, internally known as the Hellephant-adjacent 'Demon' version of the supercharged 6.2. To be precise, this engine used a larger 2.7-liter supercharger than the Hellcat's 2.4-liter unit, along with revised fuel injectors, a higher-flow fuel pump, and revised engine management calibration. The result was 840 horsepower and 770 lb-ft of torque when running on 100-octane fuel. On 91-octane pump gas, the rating dropped to 808 hp still the highest output of any production V8 in the world at the time of its launch, a record it held over the Hellcat, the Shelby GT500, and the Corvette Z06 of that era.

The Demon's supercharger swap alone would have been a significant upgrade over the Hellcat, but Dodge went further. The TransBrake feature a function normally associated with purpose-built race cars was included from the factory. It allowed the driver to build boost at the line while holding the car stationary, then release everything at once for an optimized launch. The 8-Speed